Grave-covering.



No. 728,081. f PATENTEDMAY 12, 1903'.

B.. A. BUGHANAN. 'GRAVE GOVERING;

APPLIOATION FILED .TUNE 6. 1901.y

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Patented May 12, 1903.

BETTIE ASHLEY BUCHANAN, OF LAPEL, INDIANA.

G RAVE-COVERING..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 728,081, dated May 12, 1903.

Application led Tune 6, 1901.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BETTIE ASHLEY BUCH- ANAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lapel, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grave-Coverings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in copings or coverings for graves. It has for its object more especially to protect the grave, to keep it always sightly as well as ornamental and retain the mound shape, and provide for the ready attachment or erection of'a head and foot piece or means of identification of the grave.

Itconsists of the combination and construction of parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure l is a side view. Fig. 2 is a cross-section. Fig. 3 is a detailed'sectional View disclosing more particularly the head -piece socket connection, a duplicate foot piece socket connection being also provided at the opposite end of the covering or coping.

Latitude is allowed herein as to details, as they may be changed or varied at will without departing from the spirit of my invention and the same yet remain intact and be protected.

'In carrying out my invention I construct for the application or placing over a grave or the mound thereof a covering or coping l, preferably of cast metal or any other suitable material. The covering or coping I is, preferably rounding laterally and longitudinally, conformable to the contour of the usual mound erected over graves, and may be in a single piece or, as shown herein, in two sections or parts la, with the meeting surfaces therebetween in the longitudinal fplane and suitably held together upon the under side, as shown. Said 'coping or covering has cast or made with it around its base a shallow receptacle or trough lb to receive or contain plants or flowers, as may be desired. Said receptacle or trough completely encompasses serai No. 63,415. (No man said coping, .being of course formed as the coping or covering sections, also in sections joined or united at the ends, as 'shown,producing a continuous chamber or receptacle. The trou-gh or receptacle 1b has through its bottom openings or passages 2, as in the usual ower pots or vases, for the purpose well understood. The coping or covering, which may be produced with any suitable or fanciful configuration, as shown, is designed to be coated with enamel, preferably in white, or otherwise weatherproofed, with its eongurated surface gilded, bronzed, or otherwise further ornamented according to taste of owner.

The coping or covering may have cast or otherwise produced in its surface in alto-rilievo or intaglio the name of the order or profession or some family or household name of the interred, as will be readily appreciated. Also upon the coping or covering may be suitably superposed and secured, or not, vases, urns, rbc., for also holding flowers or plants. At the end s'of the coping or covering are sockets 3 3, which receive the Shanks or lower portions of head and foot pieces 4 4a, respectively, the purpose of which is well understood. Ornamental headed bolts 5 5a are inserted transversely through said sockets and said lower portions of the head and foot pieces to properly secure the last named in place. Also ornamental pins (i 6, each having thereon the representation of a cross and crown as one way of ornamenting the same, may be inserted through holes 7 7 in the bottom of the shallow receptacle or trough Il and driven into the ground to more securely hold or anchor the coping or covering in place if made of light material.

Having thus fully described my invention,

`What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A grave or mound coping or covering embracing two longitudinal sections each provided with inwardly-projecting lugs, means for securing said lugs together, a continuous IOO a continuous trough at its base, with sockets at its ends, and head and foot pieces with their lower ends adapted to be held in said sockets, substantially as set forth.

3. A grave or mound coping or covering having a transversely and longitudinally rounded surface, suitably or fancifully configurated, and a continuoustrough at, and encompassing, its base and head and foot piece receiving sockets at its ends, and ornamental securing-pins driven through holes in the bottom of said trough, into the ground, anchoring said coping in place, substantially as set forth.

4. The grave-covering, comprising two longitudinal sections, jointly having the usual mound outline and the trough at the base, extending entirely around the same and having integral therewith head and foot piece receiving sockets, said covering-sections having integral therewith urn-sections connected together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

BETTIE ASHLEY BUCHANAN. lvitnesses:

WM. F. LAYNE, FRANK NEIGHBORS. 

